Technical Program Manager, Google Pixel Hardware
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering (Hardware focus), or equivalent practical experience in Electrical Engineering.
- 5 years of experience in technical program management or engineering management in electrical engineering.
- Experience as an electrical design engineer, hardware engineer, or technical lead in Electrical Engineering (EE) component/system development.
- Experience leading full-lifecycle electrical engineering programs for consumer electronics (phones, laptops, or technical accessories), taking products from concepts through mass production.
Preferred qualifications:
- 8 years of experience successfully shipping complex, high-quality consumer electronics or highly integrated hardware/software systems.
- Deep expertise in consumer hardware development lifecycles, manufacturing processes, and JDM/Original Device Manufacturer (ODM) vendor management (including technical negotiations).
- Demonstrated ability to define, drive, and own overall EE component and system-level development processes
- Proven ability to orchestrate complex engineering ecosystems, globally distributed cross-functional groups, and vendor partnerships to align leadership and deliver multi-generational product goals.
- Ability to travel globally as needed.
- Proactive approach to navigate ambiguity, define strategic direction across simultaneous initiatives, and design scalable processes that ensure successful product launches.
About the job
Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale end-to-end product development strategies for first-party goods within a Joint Design Manufacturing (JDM) model, navigating high ambiguity to define program architecture and drive overarching business, budget, and quality goals.
- Architect comprehensive program frameworks across globally distributed engineering, operations, and business teams, aligning cross-functional leadership on strategic priorities and resource allocation.
- Anticipate and engineer systemic solutions for cross-organizational bottlenecks. Drive strategic trade-off decisions at the leadership level to optimize product manufacturability, commercial viability, and time-to-market.
- Synthesize complex technical and operational data into compelling, executive-ready narratives that influence executive leadership (Director/VP) decisions and shape the first-party goods portfolio strategy.
- Define and execute the strategic goal for external partnerships and JDM engagements, elevating vendor capabilities and negotiating complex engagements to optimize the broader hardware development lifecycle.
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